Naivete Quotes
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Naivete Quotes & Sayings
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Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?
— Patton Oswalt
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
— Eric Hoffer
There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
— Germaine Greer
Everything's just fucking Disney with you.
— Nenia Campbell
Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous. — David Foster Wallace
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous. — David Foster Wallace
I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.
— Daphne Du Maurier
I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'
— Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Reading relaxes me.
— Elizabeth Newton
Life is an empowered exploration towards consciousness development.
— Simion Hurghis
we know little of the things for which we pray
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.
— Charles Krauthammer
Optimists are usually inexperienced.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.
— Sophia Amoruso
When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.
— Ben Carson
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
— Jock Sturges
In spite of everything, I still didn't miss high school. The real world, even with all its problems, suited me just fine.
— Suzanne Supplee
You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.
— William Shakespeare
How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.
— Louisa May Alcott
Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.
— Fran Lebowitz
I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.
— Judith Jamison
Innocence might be its own reward, but when it boardered on naivete, if not stupidity, it was unforgivable.
— Elizabeth Aston
Most often, what I don't know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
One should use common words to say uncommon things
— Arthur Schopenhauer